refused without comment to hear appeals from amazon and overstock.com in their fight against the state law that forces them to remit sales taxes the same weight in state businesses be. that again from "the associated press." you can go online to c-span facebook page, share your comments and whether the 112th congress is on track to be the least productive in modern time. join the conversation by going to facebook.com/c-span. later today, 6:30 p.m. eastern we will have live to the hudson institute for remarks by the leader of the french opposition party. he will talk about france's role in europe and in the world and the french position on the nuclear deal with iran. >> social media is a very old idea. we think that its recent and only people alive today have ever done it but really what i'm arguing is there's a very long and rich tradition of social be that goes back to the era of cicerone, the late roman republic. the point is you don't need a digital network to do social media. if you have want it goes faster but you could do it in the old days. those cicerone did it with messengers runn